2009 Sponsors
Chromoly rear upper control arms
Last summer Andre at Pina Motorsports introduced his chromoly rear upper control arms for the 1G AWD and VR-4 platforms. They feature fully tig welded ends, heim joints, and a grease able ball joint end. The fine members of GalantVR4.org took up a collection and purchased a set for the RochesterDSM One Lap team.
Installing them is simple. Just unbolt the ball joint and give the give the spindle where the joint passes through a couple of good whacks with a hammer to pop them out. Then just unbolt the adjusters and the olds ones are out. I made sure to measure the old arms before I took them out of the car so I when I installed the new ones I would at least be in the ballpark with my alignment.
Here you can see the Curtis modified control arms these new ones will be replacing. These were “boxed in” for strength and they took everything we could throw at them last year. If the chromoly arms were not donated we would have used these again for sure.
Here is one the new PinaMotorSports fully TIG welded chromoly control arms ready to bolt in.
Here they are installed.
2010 Galant VR4 Calendar
The Galant VR4 platform is a collectors item to those lucky enough to find one. Every year, Garfield Wright, owner of Tuners Nation puts together a calendar of the best Galant VR4 pictures of the year. These calendars themselves are in limited edition.
With such a pronounced impact on the Galant VR4 community in 2009, the One Lap VR4 car is proudly taking the May slot, appropriately in time for 2010 One Lap. Garfield went a little above and beyond this year by inserting some of the calendar dates of the event this year and even putting a map of the 2010 One Lap of America even on the back of the calendar.
The calendars will be in short supply, so if you want to pick one up, I suggest you order one before the masses find out.
Official 2010 Galant VR4 Calendar
0A few favors paid and a sample of heat
I grabbed the car from Tim today, so I could finish up some of the electrical work, before the scheduled work day started tomorrow. It was nice to have the car, as I was able to pay off a few debts by giving some rides in the car. I was headed out to go grab a spare tire for the trailer, when my mom pulled in the driveway. My mom helped organize the East Rochester Library staff donations for this trip, so it was nice to be able to take her for a ride around the block.
I made it up to Irondequoit to get the spare tire and stopped in to see the Buehler’s, who live around the corner from where I was headed. We put the family in the car and did a nice expressway drive around the proverbial block, so they could enjoy the car as well. Phil and Sherianne had made a private donation to the car, so it was nice to share what all of our hard work had gone into.
It is unusually hot in Rochester today, giving me a glimpse at how painful it is going to be to have a car without air conditioning down south. It we will need to keep a cooler in the trunk or trailer to be sure we can keep some cold towels on standby. Sitting still in the car, the temperature is rising. Rising more than it should at least, meaning we need to be sure to test the radiator fan switch tomorrow. I also plan on making a length of wire to by pass the temperature sensor to bring with us.
Tomorrow we have one of the last full work days on the car. While the work list is light compared to our past efforts, there really is no more time left to entertain putting things off.
0Press Release: Street Tuned Sponsorship
The Rochester DSM One Lap of America team is proud to announce Street Tuned Motorsports has signed on as an official team sponsor.
Street Tuned Motorsports Inc. specializes in Tuning, Performance Parts and Installation for the 4G63 Turbo Eclipse, Talon, Laser and Evolution. We are also a parts retailer for the popular tuner cars and buy direct with numerous companies.
http://www.streettunedmotorsports.com/
STM is the proud home of the one and only “RICER” Evo VIII. This car has been our face for the past 4 years and our work/tuning ethic with this car has been to: Push the Limits!
The STM Ricer is the “fastest and quickest” stock-block 4g63 Evo VIII on the planet.
It is very important to us to convey how much dedication we have in a tune and maintenance. You can spend tens of thousands of dollars on your car, but if the parts don’t work well together and are not “set up” correctly, you might as well park it and look at it.
STM is not about the numbers that follow a dollar sign, but the numbers that light up at the end of the quarter mile: Results.
If you are looking for a shop that will give you the best bang for your buck and some honest, reliable options, you’ve found it.
STM has donated there time and expertise to dyno tune the One Lap VR4. Just so you know what they can do we rolled in making 244hp and rolled out making 355hp at the limit of our injectors.
0Dyno Tuning at STM (Video)
We rolled the car into Street Tuned Motorsports yesterday afternoon to put the car on their dyno and to enlist the aid of Emery in getting the car tuned with the ECMLink. It was a bit of a learning curve for us all, getting to play with the new ECMLink version 3 software.
The car was on the DYNO for 4-5 hours, as Tim and Emery sat in the car and transformed the car from a pile of parts to a unified working machine. While Tim learned the workings of ECMlink (which I am mildly jealous about), my job became sharing it with the world. We went live with the Ustream feed and were able to share the event with many of our supporters and followers out there. I did record one video stream to Ustream but the laptop I was using was mildly slow, and soon the record uploads were not working. I grabbed the video camera and recorded most of the runs from the day.
We still owe a huge thanks to STM for putting us on the dyno and providing us with the tuning time we desperately needed.
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